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  1. The solution is idiot obvious: stop Muslim immigration, eradicate ALL mosques — as they are ALL STATE SPONSORED institutions.

    As in foreign government state sponsorship.

    Duh.

    Without jihad, the number ‘security cases’ that the Feds have to deal with collapse to trivial numbers.

    As for cracking codes to get at mobsters — Pauli had them beat — sixty-years ago.

    The MAFIA merely used alternate slang — without encryption — and THAT was enough — more than enough — to totally stump prosecutors.

    For, at trial, the DA has to convince the jurors that MAFIA speak was a double-wise language — and do so beyond a shadow of doubt.

    The only way that such a transference could be made was with flaming, naked, wire taps.

    That will STILL be true with jihadis, crews that need only look at the MAFIA record for style points.

    Duh.

    What the FBI is asking for MUST mean that totalitarian states — world wide — will be FOREVER in command of their proles — that revolution can NEVER happen. CF Tehran.

    The San Bernadino jihadis provided absolutely NOTHING in the magic missing minutes — something that ought to have been obvious from the start.

    Once the fireworks began, there was no time to call mom — or any other co-ordinator… of which they had none.

  2. Neo, you do not distrust “government”. You distrust the Progressive governments of the last 100 years, both the electeds and the bureaucrats. The current crop of Democrats has zero interest in protecting its citizens. It seeks to put every one of us into his own wee little box of “privacy”, isolating every one of us, so that if the right piece of data executed by you cannot be found, info about your health or lack thereof cannot be released to your immediate family members.

  3. I was raised to distrust government. We raised our children to see government as a dangerous servant that must be watched closely and held in check. Government has been a dangerous, power hungry servant since at least Wilson. From time to time it backs off, but it always keeps pushing back eventually.

    That is why I first supported Walker, then Fiorina, and then all in for Cruz. I viewed those 3 as serious about putting DC back in the box proscribed by the Constitution.

  4. The serious bad guys will just put their own encryption on top of the built-in encryption. The government knows this. They want access to all communications for routine criminal matters.

  5. parker:
    “Government has been a dangerous, power hungry servant since at least Wilson.”
    Exactly what I meant. Especially since Wilson; the early 1900s saw the birth of the Progressive movement. Before that, Federal government was fairly trustworthy because its powers were quite limited. But in rapid movement, the Income Tax and the Federal Reserve were born, and Senators became directly-elected. Oh, and the great Woodrow campaigned for re-election opposing US involvement in the Great War, then Blam! got us into it.

  6. In the case that brought this about (San Bernardino terrorist attack) it was a government-owned phone ( from Wikipedia):

    “On February 9, 2016, the FBI announced that it was unable to unlock one of the mobile phones they recovered, a county-owned iPhone 5C issued to its employee, shooter Syed Rizwan Farook, due to its advanced security features.”

    I never understood why the government couldn’t access its own phone. And now the legislation hammer.

  7. Technology has provided us a stark choice: a world in which only powerful officials can keep secrets or a world in which everyone can keep secrets. I know which I choose.

  8. The big issue is the fact that nothing stops — and soon it will be much easier — individuals from doing their own encryption, completely independently from all the Googles of the world. The only way to attempt to stop this is by making such encryption illegal, even in the absence of any other crime. Do we really want to do this?

  9. I would go one step further and say that all political power is corrupt power.

    It need not be a government. Merely participating in giving political power, begins the corruption cycle.

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